Nordic teaching resources
Overview of educational material on the Nordic countries and languages.
Language teaching
Norden at the Cinema
A joint Nordic language venture for schools across the Nordic Region. The aim is for pupils to improve their ability to understand other Nordic languages with the help of film-based teaching material. The material has been produced with funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Language pilots
Website for the Language Pilots' project The site is aimed at everyone concerned with making teaching Nordic subjects more up-to-date and exciting for school pupils in the Region. Produced with funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Dynamic languages with roots
"Dynamic Languages with Roots" ("Nordiske sprog med rødder og fodder") is a lively and objective account of the Nordic languages in a historical perspective. The material is available in the Scandinavian languages, Icelandic and Faroese, as well as Sami, Greenlandic and Finnish. The book is an account of the languages' structure, historical development and mutual kinship. The book and website both have comprehensive teaching material made up of short, easily accessible texts on the history of language and linguistic subjects.
Dynamic Languages with Roots website
Understanding each other in the Nordic countries
Good advice on working together across the Nordic language divide. Publication from the Nordic Institute in Finland.
Danmarks Radio - Nordic languages
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)’s website on the Nordic languages produced with funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers. For example, listen to a Sami or Faroese poem, try out as a rapper composer or play quizzes to your heart's desire on the Nordic countries.
Nordic dictionaries
List of online Nordic dictionaries
History
History of the Nordic Region
History of the Nordic Region from the Vikings to the present day
The history of Nordic co-operation
The history of Nordic co-operation
Literature
Nordic literature at your service
Canon of Nordic literature. The various literature genres are represented with lyrics - ballads, songs, psalms and main lyrics - in novels, short stories, travel books, myths, folk poetry, fairy tales, aphorisms and drama. All the texts are found in the original language and in a modernised spelling. The Finnish, Sami, Faroese, Icelandic, and Greenlandic are also translated to one of the Scandinavian languages. To facilitate reading, the texts are provided with Danish, Swedish and Norwegian words collected in small national pamphlets.
Bibbi - Virtual Nordic Children's Library
Virtual Nordic Children's Library from the Nordic Institute in Finland.
Other teaching material about the Nordic countries
Material about the Nordic countries from Denmark's teaching portal
EMU – Denmark's teaching portal has a sub-page on its website with interactive teaching material about the Nordic Region.
EMUs' teaching material website
"We are making a contribution"
What is the role of the Nordic Region in the new Europe? This, and other issues, are discussed in the book "We are making a contribution". The book contains five sections by the Nordic writers Jan Kjærstad, Henrik Nordbrandt, Einar Már Gudmundsson, Eva Ström and Kari Hotakainen. In addition, it also contains facts on the Nordic countries and Nordic co-operation and tips on how to find out more. The book is available in Scandinavian (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) as well as in a Finnish and an Icelandic version.
Valhalla - portal for children's and youth culture
Valhalla is the Nordic Council of Ministers' portal for children's and youth culture in all the Nordic countries. The portal links to most of what is happening in the Nordic Region within architecture and design, visual arts, dance and theatre, the multicultural arena, film and media, research and education, play and movement, literature and music for children and young people.
Nordic Climate Day
Nordic Climate Day is held once a year as a mobile phone event targeting 7th - 10th grade pupils in the Nordic countries. Pupils are given assignments via their mobile phones that they have to solve during the day and then upload onto the website, where they can see the assignments of the other Nordic school pupils.
Information for schools from the Confederation of Norden Associations
Information about friendship classes, ordering teaching materials, school membership and other offers for schools from the Confederation of Norden Associations in each country.
Danmarks Radio - The Nordic Region Past and Present
A collaborative project between the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Nordic public service stations. A virtual tour of the Nordic Region with video clips and short texts. Produced with funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Maps of the Nordic Region
Collection of links to maps of the Nordic countries.
Tips on Nordic teaching material
We would be happy to receive tips on teaching materials on the Nordic Region at webredaktionen@norden.org.
